The Harvard Seismology Group carries out a broad range of projects with topics including mapping the interior of the earth, characterizing the seismic sources and global seismicity. The seismology group includes faculty, research associates, and students from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences.

News

August 2023
Thomas Lee is awarded the AGU Jerome M. Paros Scholarship in Geophysical Instrumentation/a>.

July 2023
Comparison of Corecorded Analog and Digital Systems for Characterization of Responses and Uncertainties has been published in Seismological Research Letters.

June 2023
Eduardo Lezama joins the group as a summer intern through the Harvard SPHEER REU program.
Masooma Hasnain joins the group as a summer intern through the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology URISE program .

February 2023
Yichen Geng is awarded the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her presentation at the 2022 Fall AGU Meeting.
Thomas Lee is awarded the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his presentation at the 2022 Fall AGU Meeting.

December 2022
Thomas Lee awarded the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Graduate Teaching Award.
Thomas Lee awarded a speaker stipend to present at the American Institute for Conservation Photographic Materials Group on photographic seismic recording.

October 2022
DigitSeis: Software to Extract Time Series from Analogue Seismograms has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science.

September 2022
Thomas Lee is awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award as the Teaching Fellow for General Education 1085.

August 2022
Assessing the Fidelity of Seismic Records from Microfilm and Paper Media has been published in Seismological Research Letters.
Thomas Lee awarded the Derek Bok Center Teaching Certificate.

March 2022
Thomas Lee is awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award as the Teaching Fellow for Freshman Seminar 23I.

February 2022
Thomas Lee is awarded the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his presentation at the 2021 Fall AGU Meeting.

September 2021
Yichen Geng joins the group as a graduate student.
Thomas Lee is awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award as the Teaching Fellow for General Education 1137.

April 2021
Thomas Lee is awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award as the Teaching Fellow for Freshman Seminar 23I.

December 2020
Relative Time Corrections for Historical Analog Seismograms Using the Single-Day Ambient Noise Correlation Function has been published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

September 01, 2020
DigitSeis version 1.5 has been released.

July 01, 2020
Xiaohan Song joins the group as a summer intern.
Jingxing Fang joins the group as a summer intern.
Katelyn Lee joins the group as a summer volunteer.

June 01, 2020
Yichen Geng joins the group as an intern.
Jason Jorge joins the group as a summer intern.

May 2020
Reconciling Elasticity Tensor Constraints from Mineral Physics and Seismological Observations: Applications to the Earth’s Inner Core has been published in Geophysical Journal International.

April 2020
Seismic Wave Speeds Derived from Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering for Comparison with Seismological Observations has been published in Minerals.

February 2020
Thomas Lee is awarded the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his presentation at the 2019 fall AGU Meeting.

October 08, 2019
Jiahua Zhao joins the group as an intern.

September 2019
Thomas Lee joins the group as a graduate student.

July 15, 2019
Yiyu Ni joins the group as a summer intern.

May 2019
The Dulmage–Mendelsohn Permutation in Seismic Tomography has been published in Geophysical Journal International.

May 09, 2019
Thomas Lee is awarded the Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis.

April 22, 2019
Thomas Lee is awarded the Boudoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the Natural Sciences. The title of his essay is "Silent Intrusion: New Insights into Volcano Dynamics."

December 2018
Detection of Instrument Gain Problems Based on Body‐Wave Polarization: Application to the Hi‐Net Array has been published in Seismological Research Letters.

May 25, 2018
Sunyoung Park successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis: Earth's Internal Processes and Structure Based on Novel Seismological Approaches.

May 2018
Thomas Lee is awarded summer research fellowship from the Harvard College Research Program to work at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory.

March 29, 2018
DigitSeis version 1.3 is released.

March 2018
Sunyoung Park is awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award as the Teaching Fellow for Freshman Seminar 23I.

February 26, 2018
Near-Surface Compressional and Shear Wave Speeds Constrained by Body-Wave Polarisation Analysis has been published in Geophysical Journal International.

More news items before 2018 can be found here.

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